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DNA & Ethnicity- Who, me?
Like most genealogists (and family historians): I am not a DNA expert, but am curious about my family history, and I want as many clues and facts as I can unearth. All in all, I guess that makes me pretty average. Although, I hesitate to emphasize my being normal. By way of providing some further background and context, I really do know quite a bit about my familys’ histories (awkward grammar alert). But, I continue to want to learn more. Like most of you, when I get stumped chasing previously obvious leads, I look for new information and data threads to pull. DNA clues have always seemed to offer…
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Are you new to GEDmatch?
If you are like many family genealogists and historians, you are likely involved in analyzing the potential of using DNA for your research. As you may have read, here or elsewhere, my wife and I have both ‘taken’ 23andme and AncestryDNA ‘tests’. We obtained some useful and interesting information; I even solved one small mystery using DNA. But for all that, I’d have to say the whole DNA thing seemed overblown and over valued to me. That is until now. This last week a friend strongly suggested I use GEDmatch. I dutifully downloaded one of my DNA test results (the one from AncestryDNA because it was newest and I only…
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